atheism

deconstruction

A technique, pioneered by Jacques Derrida, that sets aside ordinary categories of analysis and makes us, instead, of unexpected perspectives on cultural elements; it can be used for finding hidden values in text, film, art work, cultural practice, or religious phenomenon.

Carol Gustav Jung

James Frazer

____is the Scottish anthropologist and author of "The Golden Bough" who saw the origins of religion in early attempts by human beings to influence nature and who identified religion as an intermediate stage between magic and science.

Bodh Gaya

bodihisattva

Buddha nature theory

a Mahayana school that said if nirvana and samsara cannot be separated, then nirvana must interpenetrate all reality, therefore all beings have a portion of nirvana and so possess the latent potential for its realization

"Protestant Buddhism"

punya

PureLand

a form of Mahayana Buddhism founded in India but spreading more widely to China and then Japan; it promoted deferring enlightenment-seeking from the human state until rebirth in a heaven; must rely on "other power" of celestial Buddhas to reach nirvana